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- PodcastState of Agentic Coding #11
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to make *actually* good software, you have to use it a lot but many people are spending more time in their coding agents/factories than in the apps they're building - so they won't
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what a PR review of AI code looks like for me: 1) does it do anything remotely dangerous 2) does it touch files I would reasonably expect it to 3) do the tests cover the expected behaviour 4) does it follow architecture convention 5) [spot check code for slop]
3 September
From one piece Sentry Startup Spotlight with Ben Vinegar Founder of Modem 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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So I guess I guess that's my like weird take, which is there's an underserved market for understanding. It is hard to market because it's like you can't really put like a dollar or like a metric on it in the same way that you can tokens.
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Whereas when you're, when you're ripping on just like a lower fidelity mock -ups that might be like 80 % fidelity that kind of tell you the shape, like you, it takes less tokens. The agent takes less time to generate it. It puts you on the better path going forward.
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- PodcastState of Agentic Coding #9
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That uncovered many small issues and patched them - enough to feel like we were making progress - but it steered us away from the *real* problem There’s still no substitute for expertise
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From one piece Is Agent Harness relevant in 2026 | Ben Vinegar (Co-founder, Modem.dev) 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Agent harnesses are only at the beginning, with probably a lot more innovation still to come.Their words
So to me, I just look at that as to say like, that's the indicators that we are at the beginning. And there's probably still a lot more innovation to happen.
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my advice to people is like you know if you want to get into software um i actually encourage you to build open source software first and demonstrate that you can actually get anybody to use anything because it's really hard
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From one piece State of Agentic Coding #7 with Armin and Ben 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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this like fast fashion, like fast fashion of software is what we're experiencing right now. where people are building something and they're like, hey, look at this. And if they don't, like, if people don't use it, they throw it away and go and try to find some other flash in the pan thing. Folks, my advice to you is have some conviction and work on things a little bit longer.
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Well, look, we don't need 400 3-column agentic coding multiplexers. We don't need that. The primitives are the bigger unlock to what's possible than the AI coding.
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It was a Cloudflare worker oddity. And you know what? There's no more Stack Overflow. There's no more people writing blog posts. There's no one writing, gee, I hit this painful problem with Cloudflare workers and here's how I solved it. So how does the agent index this?
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Programming languages that LLMs do not choose, like Ruby and Zig, look dead in the long term.Their words
it does seem like long-term Ruby and Zig are dead. And what I mean is that if the LLMs are not choosing them over a long enough timeline, they're going to become like Louisiana French.
8 June
From one piece Draw in your terminal! tmux + Terminal Maxxing w/ Ben Vinegar (Syntax) 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I just wanna make a comment that like coding agents make you doing stuff on Linux way more approachable.
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Running agents in YOLO mode lulls people into a false sense of security; everything an agent does should be gated.Their words
you get lulled into this false sense of security. But I've already experienced agents kind of like reason to themselves about why they gotta go and do something and seen, um, seen some bad effects of that. And I just, like, my position and the position of the company, for example, is we just, everything is gated. We don't just let agents go YOLO.
2 June
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A pattern I'm seeing with AI debugging: it's easy to get stuck inside the model's search space. So you burn tokens & time chasing candidate fixes, while the real answer sits in context only you have ... but never explored, because you quietly surrendered your thinking.
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AI sometimes makes things too easy, and there's value in the pain.
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LLMs love code with explicit inputs and outputs and no side effects, so the functional programmers were right.Their words
Hate to say it, but the functional programmers were right. LLMs love code with explicit inputs/outputs and no side effects.
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Feels like the demand for OSS hasn't felt this low in a while: 1. People can just codegen what they want 2. Companies will use whatever gets them to market faster to capitalize on AI – if it's a black box so what
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AI will write the majority of code.Their words
I've come to accept AI will write the majority of code.
11 August 2025
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